10 Nov 2011

Poppies! Poppies will put them to sleep...sleeeep...now they'll sleeeeeeeep....!

RE the furore regarding FIFA's decision to not allow the England football team to wear poppies on their shirts in the upcoming friendly against Spain at Wembley:

(via The Guardian)

"(Prime Minister David) Cameron then declared his intention to write an angry letter to Fifa, demanding that England's footballers be allowed to show their respect for all those who have lost their lives in conflict in places like Afghanistan by sporting a symbol of the Islamic republic's lucrative heroin export trade"

and

"At the time of writing, two bozos from the English Defence League, an organisation not renowned for it's tight grasp on the concept of irony, had muscled in on the farce by clambering up on the roof of Fifa HQ in Zurich to selflessly protest on behalf of those left with no voice as a result of being too dead from fighting against the kind of people who espouse similar views to supporters of the English Defence League. Remembrance of the war dead doesn't get more dignified - well done football, well done."